Chinese Greeting Cards

Send a free Chinese greeting card with your personal Chinese text, you have the option of using a Latin name which is automatically translated into Chinese.

1. Choose the text

2. Choose a font

3. Choose a card

NEW
CHINESE NEW YEAR
GREETINGS (wealth, prosperity, happiness, ...)
VARIOUS
OBJECTS
CHARACTERS
LOVE / MARRIAGE / VALENTINE'S DAY

What Chinese greeting cards actually say

Chinese good wishes are formulaic in a way that European ones are not, and the formulas are old. Most are four characters long, a rhythm that runs through the whole language, and they are reused word for word rather than reinvented: wishing prosperity, wishing that things go as you would like them, wishing peace for the whole year. Writing something original would be as odd as inventing a new phrase to replace happy birthday.

That is why the cards here carry set expressions rather than free text. The New Year formulas are the largest group, because the Chinese New Year is the occasion on which such things are said, and they come with their own conventions: red for luck, gold for wealth, and a preference for pairs over single things.

Put a name on a card and you get an image ready to save and send. If you want the name written for its own sake rather than on a card, the painting and the seal generators do the same job in two other traditional forms.

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